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...They-and We-Fight Sir: Of all the reasons given for the successes of the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam [Aug. 25], none was so important as the statement of the U.S. official that "Viet Nam's traditional society doesn't offer much in the way of opportunity...
...were not Viet Cong captives but trainees in a gruelingly realistic prisoner-of-war course at Fort Sill, Okla. Roughest of its kind in the Army, the course is designed to toughen artillery-officer candidates for the kind of torture and humiliation under which many prisoners cracked in Korea. In the year since the course began, about 6,000 officers have completed...
...full saga of Army Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. Stewart's heroism near An Khe in May last year lies buried with him. But eight Viet Cong corpses sprawled around his body bore testimony to the ferocity of the 23-year-old air cavalryman's last fight to shield five wounded comrades. As the only member of his six-man squad left unhurt by the Viet Cong's first surprise onslaught, Stewart alone battled a platoon for four hours, beating back three savage assaults. When his M-16 rifle was empty, Stewart crawled through a barrage of bullets...
Howard and his platoon of 17 Marine scouts were trapped on the grassy slopes of Hill 488, deep inside Viet Cong territory south of Danang soon after midnight on June 15, 1966. For six hours, an entire North Vietnamese battalion of more than 350 men tried to dislodge them with mortars, machine guns and grenades. Every American was wounded, some in hand-to-hand combat in which Marines clubbed attackers with rifle butts or hacked them with knives. At least 48 of the Communists were killed by the platoon; many others were lost when Howard summoned up artillery...
...bicycles, that even at the present level of bombing, "the volume of traffic it is now required to carry, in relation to its capacity, is small." It is surprisingly small: "Intelligence estimates suggest that the quantity of externally supplied material, other than food, required to support the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in South Viet Nam at about their current level of combat activity is significantly under 100 tons per day-a quantity that could be transported by only a few trucks." Therefore, "complete interdiction of these supplies has never been considered possible by our military leaders...